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Richard Michaels Stefanik

Articles by Richard Michaels Stefanik

Pretense, Pratfalls and Silly Walks: Why Characters make us Laugh

Humor is a perceptual experience that causes people to laugh. By definition, it is generated by a 'sudden radical deviation from expected patterns of behavior in a situation that concludes by being non-threatening to the perceiver.' That behavior can be linguistic behavior (grammar, word usage, pragmatics), character and social behavior (deviations fr... (read more)

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